Jardin du Luxembourg

This entry is part 5 of 19 in the series April in Paris How do you take a picture of a statue? This is a question I can’t answer. My suspicion is that I wanted to be below it a bit to show the scale, but I’ve tried that a lot and it didn’t really work out. I made it a bit off-center to try to have the lion watching over the park. Unfortunately, I wasn’t thinking about the full view of the...

Vaccinations (did you say “Polarized Invective?”)

Here’s the question I had: Should I get my children vaccinated? As a person who now fits squarely into the “expecting father” category, I’m already starting to freak out about the choices I make for my children, and this one seems to divide a lot of people. Sometimes, we ask (or get, whether we ask or not) advice. One topic has come up a few times. Vaccinations. I personally think that...

Jardin de la Roseraïe

This entry is part 6 of 19 in the series April in Paris An attempt at trying to capture a sign close-up, while having the details of what that sign represents in the background, but out of the focal plane. Not a very good attempt, since you can’t really see the garden or the...

Pour la Science

This entry is part 3 of 19 in the series April in Paris I was playing a lot with close-ups of things, and aperture. I’ve got dozens of these. As individual artistic images, they’re not actually stunning. However, if I were writing about a topic centered on science, this would make a pretty good featured image of the “stock image, something to look at while John rambles aimlessly about...

l’Orangerie

This entry is part 4 of 19 in the series April in ParisOne day, we went to the Musée de l’Orangerie, the small art gallery that was specially built to house a series of 8 of Monet’s “Water Lillies” murals. I can’t even express the beauty of this experience. Most of the time, when you see Water Lillies, you’re looking at a small piece. These were murals that are like 45 feet long...